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I’ve read a great deal about how red worms(Esenia Fetida) are not good enough to be used a a bait worm.   I disagree.  Red Worms (Esenia Fetida) are a great bait worm and they are easy to grow and can be quite attractive to fish if you fatten them up with the right fattener.

If you pull a red worm right out of a pile of manure it might not be too tempting to fish, but if you fatten it with a homemade fattener that I’m going to show you how to make then the fish will coming biting and you be a happy camper…or fisherman.

Worm fattener does exactly what it sounds like it does, it fattens worms but it also changes the taste of the worms in such a way that fish actually find them more attractive when used as bait.

This is what you will need:

Chicken Food Egg Laying Pellets-

Pellets are better than the powdered stuff because the powdered stuff usually has chunks of corn that are not broken down enough.  The pellets are reduced to a powder and then formed into pellets.

Powdered Milk

Wheat or Rice Bran

Wheat Flour

Agricultural Lime

Rabbit Pellets (alfalfa pellets)

Get a big bowl or pot

Mix in 5 Parts of the chicken food.

Add 2 parts of rice or wheat bran

Add one part of each of the other ingredients.

To simplify, If you add 5 cups of chicken food then you will add 2 cups of wheat bran and 1 cup of each of the other ingredients.

You can mix these together and use them dry on the fattening beds.  A fattening bed is a bed of adult worms that you wish to fatten.

Moisten the bed first and then add the food dry to the top.

You can also use a blender and blend all of the mixed ingredients into a fine powder that you sprinkle over the bed.

Another way is to moisten the mixture and feed the worms by laying patties of the fattener on top of the bed.  Cover the top of the bed with some landscaping cloth and the worms will come up and eat themselves into fat bait worms.

Enjoy you fishing.  I’d like to hear from you if you have other fattener recipes or if you use this one.

Thanks for stopping in.

Ken

Grindal worms are small white worms that are a wonderful food for small fish.

Culturing Grindal worms is pretty easy.
Items needed:
1. Potting soil without fertilizer in it.
2. Container
3. Slice of white bread
4. A little milk.
Moisten the potting soil. Add the live Grindal Worms and let them settle in. Place a slice of white bread in on the surface of the soil and moisten the bread with milk. Place a cover on the culture and keep in a dark and cool place like a basement. The Grindal worms will multiply like crazy.

Split the colony when the worms swarm the bread. Replace the bread and milk only after it is totally consumed by the Grindal Worms. Remove any moldy bread as soon as possible.

To harvest place a small piece of flat glass on the surface of a well fed culture. The worms will climb on the glass. You can then remove the worms and feed them to your fish fry. Betta fish fry love Grindal worms.
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